Brian Giles
Brian Giles
Brian Stephen Gilesis a former Major League Baseball outfielder. During his career he played for the Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates and San Diego Padres. The left-handed Giles was a two-time All-Star and had a career line of .291/.400/.502 with 287 home runs, 411 doubles, 1,078 run batted in, and 1,183 walks in 1,847 games...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth20 January 1971
CityEl Cajon, CA
hit snapped top wrist
I had it, ... My wrist was over the wall. When my glove hit the top of the wall, it popped out. When it snapped back is when it popped out.
fence hit knocked palm top wrist
I had it in the palm of my glove, ... but my wrist hit the top of the fence and knocked it out.
both hit innings rule unwritten
You hit one of their big guys, they're going to go after one of our guys. It's kind of an unwritten rule in baseball. Obviously, you don't want to get hit, but we've been able to put up big innings both times it's happened.
hit lives playing pressure
We've put pressure on that team, we just haven't come up with the big hit yet. We're playing for our lives now.
experience free
When you haven't been a free agent, it's intriguing, a new experience. It's not something I've been through before. I've always had a contract.
ball coach defense game gave glad
This was a really big game for us. I was just glad coach (Ben Waddle) gave me the ball and let me throw. I just let my defense do the work.
ask next special
Why don't you ask him if it'll be special to play next to me?
bad extremely throughout
We pitched extremely well throughout this trip. We had one bad start; that's about it.
baseball create played scoring
We've just played inconsistent baseball lately. We have to create more scoring opportunities for ourselves.
defense pitching
It's all about pitching and defense in the playoffs,
spill
That's OK. Just as long as they don't spill any of the beer.
ask game giving needed
It was a game we needed to win. We're not giving up. That's all you can ask for.
nice respond weird
It's weird how things worked. It's nice to respond after what happened.
eddie helped keeping
Eddie helped me out in keeping on the same plane,